The Shapeways Makerbot Bunny

July 16, 2010

Shapeways has had its office Makerbot for a few weeks now, and after much tweaking, cursing and complaints of smell and excess noise, Hans has managed to persuade it to print the Bowie the Bunny.

The Makerbot compared to Shapeways Grey Robust (both of which use extruded ABS) is fairly good for the overall form but does not yet have the resolution for the finer details nor the reliability to ensure it will actually work every time.

6 comments

• Michael Williams
  July 19, 2010 at 1:15 pm
  When I saw the image of it by itself, I was like "that looks like crap". Then you see it next to the gray robust, and it’s really not that off of a commercial printer.

• Dave Durant
  July 20, 2010 at 9:02 pm
  Hey now, that sounds like a challenge, Duann!! 🙂
  Is Bowie’s STL available somewhere? Those ears look tricky, especially on top, but I’d like to give this a shot with my makerbot...

• Duann
  July 21, 2010 at 1:37 pm
  Hi Dave, the ears were a little tricky and took a bit of ‘post production’ to clean them up.
  You would have to ask BAROBA about the STL file for Bowie the Bunny
  http://www.shapeways.com/model/23814/bowie_the_bunny.html

• Dave Durant
  July 21, 2010 at 2:19 pm
  Na… That’ll never happen.. (dave buys some gold spray paint and starts churning out Dolex watches on his makerbot)..
  I’ll ping BAROBA about Bowie..

• Shapeways Blog
  August 3, 2010 at 6:36 am
  Students at Victoria University of Wellington have been assigned the task of designing a functioning 3D printer with a “green” solution within a four week timeframe. Ouch….